We could be bonobos, but we chose to be chimpanzees.
Re:"Do you not like money?"
by ASalazarMX on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @12:26PM
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It's debatable if even bonobos chose to be bonobos.
I wouldn't want to make out with my neighbors to solve conflicts anyway.
Not much. The rules have emerged, there's only small amounts of deliberate interference with that natural process.* Deliberate societal rules (statute laws, rulings) have to fit to what's politically viable, which is to say, what people in general like: and people in general are incoherent, only diffidently cooperative, and run on intuition, so mostly we get accidental rules instead of deliberately designed ones.
* Interesting instance of when the word "natural" applies to things created by humans.